LOUNSBERY, Grace Constant. New York 29.1.1876 — France 24.9.1964. U.S. Author, Playwright and Bauddha in France. Daughter of James L. (d. 1897) (?) and Grace Constant. Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, in 1904 already in Paris. A theosophist, the founder (1929) and President of Amis du Bouddhisme. Unmarried. Publications: La Méditation…
KAMENSKY, Anna (Anna Alekseevna Kamenskaja). Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg 25.8.1867 — 23.6.1952. Russian Theosophist, emigrated to Switzerland. Born in Russia in a noble family, lost early her father and grew up in southern Germany and from 1875-82 in Geneva, Switzerland. Back in Russia studies at Higher Women College in St.Petersburg,…
ROVIRALTA BORREL, José. 1856 — 1926. Spanish Physician and Theosophist. In 1889 he was one of the founders of Sociedade Teosófica da Espanha. Publications: Translated: El Bhagavad Gita (Canto del Señor): Diálogos entre Krishna y Arjuna, Príncipe de la India. Barcelona 1896 (not from original); Goethe: Fausto, and other classics…
MONTOLIÚ Y TOGORES, Francisco de. Tarragona 9.2.1861 — 10.5.1892. Spanish Professor at the School of Agricultural Engineering in Madrid, but also a Theosophist, the founder of the Spanish Theosophical Society (1889/91). Born in an aristocratic family of Barcelona. Publications: Under nom-de-plume Nemo published a translation of the Chāndogya Upaniṣad. 1891;…
SMIRNOV, Boris Leonidovič. Kozljaniči, Černigov gub. (now Černigiv, Ukraine) 1891 — Ašhabad 2.5.1967. Ukrainian Physician interested in Indology, in Turkmenistan. Professor of Medicine and Member of Turkmenistan Academy of Science in Ašhabad. Son of a physician, Leonid Smirnov and his wife Sofia Mitrofanova (an author of children’s books), gymnasium in…
ROOKE, George Harry. 18?? — 19??. British Officer and Theosophist. In 1909 in Adyar. In 1939 Major G.H.R. is listed as a Theosophist resident in London. Publications: The Meghaduta of Kalidasa. Translated with transliterated text. 10+82 p. L. 1935. – Theosophical articles. Sources: Stray notes in Internet.
MANEN, Mari Albert Johan van. Nijmegen 16.4.1877 — Calcutta 17.4.1943. Dutch Librarian and Theosophist in India. Son of Reinier Otto van Manen (1843–1923), an engineer in state service, and Maria Albertina Johanna van Tricht, grew up in Zutphen and Haarlem. After a chequered youth, more interested in art and politics…
KÖRBER, Hans Nordewin von (Koerber). Treptow-Köpenick 23.7.1896 — San Diego ?.4.1979. German Sino-Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Son of Friedrich Theodor Joachim von Körber and Helene Elise von Otto. Gymnasium in Charlottenburg, studies at Berlin, Bonn, Marburg and Cambridge. In 1914 expedition to Khotan with A. H. Francke, sent by Scherman…
KLEEN (af Kleen), Tyra. Stockholm 29.3.1874 — Stockholm 17.9.1951. Swedish Painter interested in South and South-East Asia. Daughter of Richard Kleen (1841-1923), diplomat and juridical author, and Maria Charlotta Amelia Wattrang. Educated at home, mainly by her grandfather Nils Adolf Wattrang (d. 1890), in the 1890s art studies in Germany…
HINLOOPEN LABBERTON, Dirk van. Doesburg, Gelderland 24.9.1874 — Ojai, Calif. 3.9.1961. Dutch Theosophist interested in Sanskrit, lived a long time in Indonesia. Son of the bookseller Richard van Hinloopen Labberton (1840–1897) and Regina Henke van Assen. Matriculated 1893 from Arnhem, he went in 1894 to Indonesia and worked as employee…